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Rubio acting director of the National Archives

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Rubio acting director of the National Archives​

In addition to being the Secretary of State and the acting director of USAID, Marco Rubio is also the acting archivist of the United States, according to a high-level official.

Per the official, Rubio has been the acting archivist since shortly after President Trump’s inauguration.

Last month, Trump said he wanted to replace former archivist Colleen Shogan, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden. The president believes the National Archives provided information to the Department of Justice on the classified documents case against him.
 
Yeah I could probably merge this into the revenge thread but it could have wider implications. We will wait and see.

I knew Rubio had become a Trump lackey (I wondered if Trump picked him for a role Trump does not respect mostly to get a more MAGA person in Rubio’s seat in the Senate), but I confess that I am mildly surprised how much of a toady he has become.
 
nycfan said:
Yeah I could probably merge this into the revenge thread but it could have wider implications. We will wait and see.

I knew Rubio had become a Trump lackey (I wondered if Trump picked him for a role Trump does not respect mostly to get a more MAGA person in Rubio’s seat in the Senate), but I confess that I am mildly surprised how much of a toady he has become.
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I think State was the bait and now he’s the guy in charge (on paper) of screwing up USAID and the National Archives. Trump, or someone smarter than Trump, knows that Rubio is fully snared. He can’t push back against Trump this soon or his tenure will be measured in Scaramuccis and his greater political ambitions will be all but dead.
 
“… And the administration announced it had dismissed the archivist of the United States, Colleen Shogan, at Trump’s direction. While Trump had said he wanted to replace the archivist, it still amounted to a shocking move targeting Shogan, who had largely been loyal to Trump.

The role of the National Archives took on new prominence in recent years, coming under scrutiny from Republicans in the wake of the search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort as part of an investigation into his handling of classified documents.

Shogan, who has enjoyed a personal relationship with first lady Melania Trump, was not at the National Archives when FBI agents searched Trump’s home in 2022. …”


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Dems were kind of perplexed when Shogan was hired due to her connections to Trump but apparently it was an attempt to insulate the National Archives from Trump’s thirst for revenge, which didn’t work.
 
nycfan said:
“… And the administration announced it had dismissed the archivist of the United States, Colleen Shogan, at Trump’s direction. While Trump had said he wanted to replace the archivist, it still amounted to a shocking move targeting Shogan, who had largely been loyal to Trump.

The role of the National Archives took on new prominence in recent years, coming under scrutiny from Republicans in the wake of the search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort as part of an investigation into his handling of classified documents.

Shogan, who has enjoyed a personal relationship with first lady Melania Trump, was not at the National Archives when FBI agents searched Trump’s home in 2022. …”


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Dems were kind of perplexed when Shogan was hired due to her connections to Trump but apparently it was an attempt to insulate the National Archives from Trump’s thirst for revenge, which didn’t work.
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Putting this here, but not exactly the GOP - somehow Biden appointed a MAGA or a MAGA collaborator/capitulator as national archivist…

America’s Top Archivist Puts a Rosy Spin on U.S. History—Pruning the Thorny Parts​

Plans for new exhibits at the National Archives Museum included swapping a photo of Martin Luther King Jr. marching for Civil Rights for former President Nixon greeting Elvis​



“… U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan and her top advisers at the National Archives and Records Administration, which operates a popular museum on the National Mall, have sought to de-emphasize negative parts of U.S. history. She has ordered the removal of prominent references to such landmark events as the government’s displacement of indigenous tribes and the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II from planned exhibits.

Visitors shouldn’t feel confronted, a senior official told employees, they should feel welcomed. Shogan and her senior advisers also have raised concerns that planned exhibits and educational displays expected to open next year might anger Republican lawmakers—who share control of the agency’s budget—or a potential Trump administration.

She was tapped for the job at a sensitive time for the agency—days before federal agents searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in 2022, spurred by the Archives’ discovery that Trump had taken home classified records. Republicans accused the agency of abusing its authority and targeting the former president. GOP lawmakers grilled Shogan about alleged partisan leanings during her confirmation hearings.

Shogan has since overseen a host of changes to exhibits planned in a roughly $40 million makeover of the National Archives Museum, which draws more than a million visitors a year, and the adjacent Discovery Center, which provides education programs for students and families. Longtime employees said Shogan’s directives amounted to censorship. …”
 
nycfan said:
FLASHBACK

Putting this here, but not exactly the GOP - somehow Biden appointed a MAGA or a MAGA collaborator/capitulator as national archivist…

America’s Top Archivist Puts a Rosy Spin on U.S. History—Pruning the Thorny Parts​

Plans for new exhibits at the National Archives Museum included swapping a photo of Martin Luther King Jr. marching for Civil Rights for former President Nixon greeting Elvis​



“… U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan and her top advisers at the National Archives and Records Administration, which operates a popular museum on the National Mall, have sought to de-emphasize negative parts of U.S. history. She has ordered the removal of prominent references to such landmark events as the government’s displacement of indigenous tribes and the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II from planned exhibits.

Visitors shouldn’t feel confronted, a senior official told employees, they should feel welcomed. Shogan and her senior advisers also have raised concerns that planned exhibits and educational displays expected to open next year might anger Republican lawmakers—who share control of the agency’s budget—or a potential Trump administration.

She was tapped for the job at a sensitive time for the agency—days before federal agents searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in 2022, spurred by the Archives’ discovery that Trump had taken home classified records. Republicans accused the agency of abusing its authority and targeting the former president. GOP lawmakers grilled Shogan about alleged partisan leanings during her confirmation hearings.

Shogan has since overseen a host of changes to exhibits planned in a roughly $40 million makeover of the National Archives Museum, which draws more than a million visitors a year, and the adjacent Discovery Center, which provides education programs for students and families. Longtime employees said Shogan’s directives amounted to censorship. …”
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“… Shogan’s senior aides ordered that a proposed image of Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. be cut from a planned “Step Into History” photo booth in the Discovery Center. The booth will give visitors a chance to take photos of themselves superimposed alongside historic figures.

The aides also ordered the removal of labor-union pioneer Dolores Huerta and Minnie Spotted-Wolf, the first Native American woman to join the Marine Corps, from the photo booth, according to current and former employees and agency documents.

The aides proposed using instead images of former President Richard Nixon greeting Elvis Presley and former President Ronald Reagan with baseball player Cal Ripken Jr.

After reviewing plans for an exhibit about the nation’s Westward expansion, Shogan asked one staffer, Why is it so much about Indians? according to current and former employees. Among the records Shogan ordered cut from the exhibit were several treaties signed by Native American tribes ceding their lands to the U.S. government, according to the employees and documents.

For an exhibit about patents that had changed the world, Shogan directed that the patent for the contraceptive pill be replaced. Aides substituted the patent for television. During discussions about what to use instead of the birth-control pill, an aide to Shogan suggested a patent for the bump stock, a device that allows a semiautomatic weapon to operate as a machine gun, according to two former employees.

Shogan and her top advisers told employees to remove Dorothea Lange’s photos of Japanese-American incarceration camps from a planned exhibit because the images were too negative and controversial, according to documents and current and former employees. Shogan’s aides also asked staff to eliminate references about the wartime incarceration from some educational materials, other current and former employees said. …”
 
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